The Best Episodes of Roseanne

Dan disciplines D.J. for taking offensive reading material to school-- Darlene's comic book. Dan reacts strongly when Roseanne discovers that Fisher has beaten Jackie.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Bruce Rasmussen

Dan returns home to rampart rumors about his behavior, while Roseanne urges a dazed Jackie to leave her abusive boyfriend.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: N/A

Foreman Dan feels lower than low for getting tough with his employees at work, while Roseanne lectures David for getting high after she finds a stash of pot in the house -- then realizes it is hers from decades ago.

Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie

Writer: N/A

The Conner family terrify each other out of their wits on Halloween night.

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: Norma Safford Vela

Roseanne wants Darlene's boyfriend, David, to move in with them, but Dan refuses to allow it.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: N/A

Darlene refuses to read her prize-winning poem on Culture Night at her school, preferring to stay home to watch a ballgame with Dan, until Roseanne lays down the law.

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: Joss Whedon

Roseanne decides it's time to give Becky "the talk", unaware that it's Darlene who needs it more.

Director: John Whitesell

Writer: N/A

Roseanne, mistaken for a guy in her lumberjack Halloween costume, plays along with some braggarts and learns about machismo.

Director: John Whitesell

Writer: Chuck Lorre

The Connors celebrate Mother's Day with a barbecue with Roseanne's feisty grandmother.

Director: John Whitesell

Writer: Chuck Lorre

As a tornado spins through Lanford, a storm is brewing inside the Conner house over the whereabouts of Jackie who hasn't returned from her trip to the market.

Director: N/A

Writer: Grace McKeaney

Roseanne is convinced that Kathy Bowman will take revenge for the Halloween prank she played on her; Jackie flirts with a moose at the Lodge costume party.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Amy Sherman-Palladino

When the parents are away, Becky and her friend Dana play with a little help from the liquor cabinet.

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: N/A

When Roseanne is called away, Jackie impresses Dan and the kids with her homemaking skills.

Director: N/A

Writer: Norma Safford Vela

Roseanne talks Leon into letting her play Santa Claus at the mall -- and hears something she wishes she hadn't from one of the kid's mothers, who turns out to be Darlene's new friend and confidante.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Chuck Lorre, Maxine Lapiduss

The Conners are sitting pretty for a TV ad for Rodbell's Luncheonette, but at home things get ugly between D.J. and Todd. Leon and Steven break up, and the Bowmans move back to Chicago.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Chuck Lorre, Maxine Lapiduss, Jennifer Heath

The power company cuts off the Conners' power. Dan and Roseanne must look at Darlene in a new light after David spends the night in her room.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Eric Gilliland

Roseanne mortifies Darlene with a sweet sixteen party, then sends her off to her friends while the adults enjoy the festivities, which include a game of Truth or Dare; the Tildens move in next door; Darlene dyes her hair black to make Roseanne mad, but is shocked when Roseanne reacts differently.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Roseanne reluctantly allows Darlene to go to a rock concert in nearby Rockford with Molly -- who abandons her.

Director: Andrew D. Weyman

Writer: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Leon outdoes himself hosting a Halloween soiree with the Lunch Box clan and a bevy of his gay friends, many of whom seem to know Fred intimately. Meanwhile, Jackie and Roseanne visit Bev's hairdresser and become convinced that she wears a wig.

Director: Gail Mancuso

Writer: N/A

Dan's birthday bash at the Lobo Lounge is interrupted by a bully who picks a fight with Dan at the pool table.

Director: N/A

Writer: Grace McKeaney

During the family's busy weekend activities, a door-to-door salesman drops by -- and then drops dead in the Conner kitchen.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Roseanne tries her hand at telephone solicitation while trying to console Becky who had an embarrassing accident in front of the school council.

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: Allan Katz

On Thanksgiving Day, Jackie finally spills the news of her new job to her mother; and Dan's dad butters up Crystal.

Director: John Pasquin

Writer: Danny Jacobson

Despite her misgivings, Roseanne, working late as a coffee-shop waitress, leaves Dan in charge of the kids.

Director: John Whitesell

Writer: N/A

Darlene is embarassed when Roseanne gives Darlene's home economics class a supermarket lesson in real-life family budgeting; D.J. has to deal with a bully.

Director: John Whitesell

Writer: N/A